Monday, November 28, 2011

This weekend Anita Heady Fiber Arts will share a booth with Catherine Hart at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Holiday Market in Watkinsville, GA. The Market will host 65 vendor booths plus 35 artists in the OCAF Art Shoppe. Come on over for a visit!

Catherine is an award winning Athens-area fiber artist with lovely pieces that hang in many Georgia art shows and some local businesses.

Here are some of my small gifts for the Market...

Wild & Wooly Ornaments

Handmade and quilted potholders

Rust and color dyed art (by Bill)

Happy Kids Quilts

For more information, click on the OCAF link above. We hope to see you there!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

One of the reasons we chose to move to Athens four years ago was the vibrant downtown. This week we had a nice dinner out and walked downtown for a while, admiring the holiday decorations...

Bill waiting for his dinner

Broad St. across from the University of Georgia

The other end of Broad St.

The newly re-opened, and beautifully restored, Georgia Theater

Heery's Too! (above), Helix and Native America have my favorite window displays. The streets will be bustling with holidays shoppers tomorrow. This weekend, UGA and Georgia Tech. will play their yearly football game and next weekend UGA will play in the SEC Championship game! I love this town.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

I was happily sewing along, quilting a sweet toddler quilt when my machine started to act funny. I stopped for a few seconds to see if I could find a problem. No problem, so I sewed another few inches.

Humm. What a pain. We were moving along so nicely...

...until I machine quilted my Supreme Slider to the back of my quilt. Good grief.

Friday, November 4, 2011

On Saturday I taught an Advanced Dye class to a group of lovely ladies. We played with thickened dye, soda soaked fabric (wet and dry), stamps and screens and all sorts of other tools to print on fabric. Here are some of their pieces (I missed photographing some of the best ones, I'm afraid)...